OCLC Research at work: FRBR, VIAF & Classify

1. OCLC Research at work: FRBR, VIAF & Classify Eric Childress OCLC Research

2. Outline • Overview of OCLC Research • FRBR (Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Records) - related work • VIAF (Virtual International Authority File) • OCLC Classify

3. OCLC Research 1

4. Three activities in one unit: OCLC Research Applied research RLG Partnership Collaboration with research libraries, archives, museums Innovation Lab Quick prototyping of products ~50 staff Scientists & Program Officers Programmers/Engineers Staff in supporting roles Applied research, standards work, prototypes, reports, events in support of OCLC’s mission Infrastructure & Standards Support Metadata Support & Management Mobilizing Unique Materials Research Information Management (RIM) System-wide Organization User Behavior Studies & Synthesis Outputs are freely available OCLC Research, a division of OCLC

5. FRBR (Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Records) – related work 2

6. FRBR in Five FRBR = Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records Developed by cataloging experts working under the auspices of IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) FRBRis from a document issued by IFLA: Functional requirements for bibliographic records : final report (1998) [link] FRBR is a conceptual model not a standard FRBR systematically models the bibliographic universe

7. Group 1 - Bibliographic Entities Group 1: products of intellectual or artistic endeavor that are named of described in bibliographic records work, expression, manifestation, item Work A distinct intellectual or artistic creation Expression The intellectual or artistic realization of a work Manifestation The physical embodiment of an expression of a work Item A single example of a manifestation

8. Original edition English Translation Illustrated edition Expressions Manifestations Items FRBR example – Don Quixote Work El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha

9. OCLC FRBR Work-set Algorithm Provides a FRBR-based view of the data Records clustered into works using author and title fields from bibliographic and authority records Author names and titles normalized to construct a work key All records with the same key are grouped together in a work set or cluster

10. FRBR: WorldCat Statistics (July 2010) • *Manifestation breakdown: • 3.56 = average number of manifestations for • multi-record worksets • 40% of the manifestations belong to 16% of the works

11. FRBR is very useful for improving many products, services, & prototypes OCLC leverages FRBR for: Record error detection and correction Enhancing existing records Statistical counts and studies Used by: OCLC Research OCLC products & services OCLC FRBR algorithm specification is openly available Sample OCLC applications: WorldCat.org See other editions.. WorldCat Identities Helps identify most widely-held works by and about a person, etc. WorldCat Genres A new interface to WorldCat data – view WorldCat by Genre OCLC Metadata Services for Publishers -- publisher metadata-to-MARC-record processing OCLC blends from-ONIX-records data with MARC data for alternate editions to create new MARC records How does OCLC leverage FRBR?

12. 3 VIAF (Virtual International Authority File)

13. VIAF (Virtual International Authority File) • A partnership of the Library of Congress, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Bibliothèque nationale de France, & OCLC • Plus participation by many additional libraries (including the Biblioteca Nacional de España & the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal) • Special processing by OCLC Research of source authority files and, bibliographic files is used to produce a single “virtual” file of VIAF authority records • 20+ national level authority files • 14+ million contributed authority records • 60+ million VIAF partner-contributed bibliographic records • + information derived from WorldCat and other OCLC work • is leveraged to produce 11+ million merged VIAF authority records • viaf.org = Freely-available search interface and data services • Work is underway to transition the VIAF prototype into an OCLC production service

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20. 4 OCLC Classify

21. Classify Experimental service from OCLC Research http://classify.oclc.org/ Leverages classification assignments in WorldCat and other OCLC data Offers class numbers for books, videos, CDs and other materials User interface for day-to-day tasks Machine service for batch processing Freely-available Updated quarterly Classify page presents: Title (work level) Author (work level) Formats available Number of editions Number of library holdings Suggested class numbers (Dewey, Library of Congress, National Library of Medicine) Most Frequent (holdings) FAST Headings Editions List Title, Author, Format, Holdings, Language, OCLC Number, Date, Class numbers

22. Classify

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